11 March 2011

DETROIT: Witnesses "Laugh" as Man is Brutally Gay-Bashed

Just heartbreaking. A young Detroit man has a shattered eye socket after he says witnesses "gawked and laughed" after he was brutally gay-bashed.

Twenty-three-year-old Justin Alesna says he walked into a gas station and another customer started unloading derogatory insults. The man punched him in the eye twice, they wrestled "and the owner told me to leave the store," Alesna tells FOX Detroit.

Alesna was hospitalized but may require additional surgery. "The eye socket is shattered in several places, like someone took a hammer to a mirror," Alesna says.

Alesna recorded a video and uploaded it to YouTube. Watch that video and the disturbing news report AFTER YOU JUMP ...

Comments

Justin is very courageous, and I hope and pray his eye and eye socket recover quickly.

When I think about Justin's attacker and those like him in communities all over this country the word that comes to mind is the famous title "Les Miserables".

Too many people who come from bad circumstances turn into bad people--but that is no excuse for savagery. Too many are black like Justin's attacker, but "Les Miserables" can come in any race, in any ethnicity. I hope the savage bastard who assaulted Justin is found, arrested, and faced with more serious criminal charges than he would have ever faced 20 years ago.

The inhuman beasts who laughed at Justin being attacked--and the store clerk who told Justin to leave...well, they will just remain "Les Miserables"; and their lives will be filled with drug addiction, violence, illiteracy, imprisonment, homelessness and breeding offspring who despise them: the Miserable.

Freaking appalling and disgusting. As usual, shows how folks can be freaking assholes. I really can't describe what I feel anymore every time I read this type of crap and nobody do ANYTHING to help out.

Wow. That is crazy. It's interesting because it seems like there has been an overall shift where this kind of thing is concerned. When I was in high school for example, if teasing or harassment was getting excessive people stepped in - especially if it was somebody black being teased by a white person. Now, it just seems like people don't care for each other at all ... Very sad.

There was a result of a survey released recently stating that society is more accepting of gay people. By some of the openness I see of gay people walking around openly holding hands and being affectionate in public and being on camera in the media it would appear that things have gotten better. However, the reality is shown through Rod 2.0 and other gay blog that homophobia is alive and well. This is a hate crime, you first have gay slurs hurled at you then you are hit in the eye, please! Bet they don't try that on gay military men (who will be coming out from the unbrella of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy). Follow through Justin so law enforcement won't sweep this under the rug! Be brave!

Justin, wanted you to know that I saw your story here in detroit on fox 2 and my heart sank, you are a hero to many of us. I find it so difficult to understand the way people think, these hate people are just scum. I hope you get well soon, and they find these attackers soon. God Bless You

I am so sick of this BS. I just wish we all could pack heat and let loose of these MF because I am tired! I'm sick and tired of people being targeted by these predatory losers and it being ignored by these morally bereft officials. the hate crime statute has done little to stop it and we can argue with politicians and lawyers day in and day out. We can rally and we can protest. But unless we protect ourselves by any means necessary, this will continue to happen. Justin, I feel for you little brother. I hope your heart heals just like your physical wounds will.